POWER awards

Previous winners 2025: Eduardo Augusto Ern, process engineer with Hitachi Energy Eduardo Augusto Ern is the embodiment of the “Rising Star” spirit—a leader who combines deep technical mastery with a relentless drive for operational excellence. Since joining the power sector in 2020, Eduardo has rapidly progressed from a specialist in Brazil to a key contributor […]

Previous winners 2025: American Electric Power (AEP) American Electric Power (AEP) is being honored for its visionary approach to community support, proving that advanced data analytics can be a powerful tool for social good. By launching a massive, digital-first outreach initiative across its multi-state service territory, AEP has effectively addressed traditional barriers—transportation, scheduling, and mobility—that […]

Previous winners 2025: Energy Storage Project Boosts Efficiency, Provides Savings, Reduces Emissions 2024: Flint Hills Resources’ Pine Bend Refinery, Rosemount, Minnesota 2023: Lineage Logistics Cold Storage Facility, Colton, California 2022: The City of White Plains, New York, 6.8-MW Community Solar and 1.7-MW/8-MWh Energy Storage Portfolio 2021: Love’s Travel Stops Solar and Electric Vehicle Charging Installations […]

Previous winners 2025: Academic Undertaking: Upgrade Project Provides Uninterruptible Power Supply 2024: R.D. Morrow Sr. Generating Station Repower Project, Purvis, Mississippi 2023: Dania Beach Clean Energy Center, Dania Beach, Florida 2022: Pinnacle Wind Farm Repowering, Keyser, West Virginia 2021: Tianjin Huadian Junliangcheng Thermal Power Plant, Tianjin, China 2020: Alamitos Generating Station, Long Beach, California, and […]

Previous winners 2025: A Modern Blueprint for Coastal Power: China’s Offshore Solar-Hydrogen Integration 2024: 4-MW Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Demonstration at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California 2023: Hydrogen Fuel-Blending Pilot, A.J. Mihm Power Plant, Pelkie, Michigan 2022: Fukushima Hydrogen Energy Research Field, Japan

Earlier this year, POWER partnered with Best Companies Group (BCG), an organization dedicated to identifying and recognizing outstanding workplaces across various industries, to launch our Best Places to Work

A run-of-river hydro project on the St. Joseph River in downtown South Bend, Indiana, spearheaded by the University of Notre Dame, was one of the first ever in the U.S. to utilize the StreamDiver propeller

For more than four decades, POWER magazine has honored the top performers in the electricity-generating industry with annual power plant awards. Award winners are selected by the editors of POWER based on nominations submitted by industry insiders, including suppliers, designers, constructors, and operators of power plants. Winning POWER’s Plant of the Year in 2023 is […]

Florida Power & Light’s Dania Beach site has been producing power for Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and surrounding communities for more than 95 years. With the latest modernization project, it’s destined to

Coal-fired See our August 2022 issue for stories covering these plants: Osaki Cool Gen, Japan Shanghaimiao Power Plant, China Renewables See our September 2022 issue for stories covering these plants: Bighorn Solar Project, Colorado Boone Dam Hydro Project, Tennessee Energypark Haringvliet, Netherlands Harvey Milk SFO Terminal, California Svartsengi Geothermal Power Plant, Iceland Western Spirit Wind, […]

  What motivates you? Is it mostly the paycheck you earn from your work in the power industry? Friendships with your coworkers? How about winning awards? I’m very proud of our small but savvy and productive editorial staff, which includes two associate editors (Sonal Patel and Tom Overton) who, over the past two years, have […]

The 2014 POWER Plant of the Year makes history, both as a project and as our cover story. The Plant of the Year award goes to the most interesting, usually new, plant in the previous year. Sometimes it’s a